Casing-cleaning machine



(No Model.) B. KLEKER 82: J. UOGER.

CASING CLEANING MACHINE.

No. 535,909. Patented Mar. 19, 1895.

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CASING=CLEANING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,909, dated March 19, 1895. Application filed October 22, 1894. Serial No. 526,638- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, BERNARD KLEKER and J UDSON OOGER, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Joseph,in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gasin g-Oleaning Machines; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in sausage casing cleaning machines in which a revolving brush operates in conjunction with an adjustable table, and the principal object of our invention is to provide a machine that will clean what is known as the beef bung casing.

Other machines have been constructed for the purpose of cleaning the other intestines of cattle used for casing, but none that will successfully cleanse the bung casing.

'A further object of our invention is to provide a machine that will cleanse not only the bung casing but all other casing. By attaining either object our machine greatly economizes both labor and time.

We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure I is a perspective View of the entire machine. Fig. II is an end view with the shield turned away from the brush.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the two views.

In our invention the brush A is set on a shaft which is connected up with the power by means of belt or gear wheel K. A table 0' is pressed upward against brush A by springs D D rigidly attached to the under face of said table near hinge E, The table 0 is attached to an arm of frame work, which supports the whole, by hinge E. By means of a pedal F and a rodG table 0 may be drawn away from brush A to allow the casing to be placed in position, or to lessen the pressure on the easing, as the operator may desire. The pressure of table 0 against brush A caused by pressure of springs D D alone may be regulated by two set screws H H passing through a rigid arm of the frame and bearing upward against the lower faces of their respective springs. A hinged shield I, when turned over brush A, catches any cleanings which may be thrown off by said brush in its revolutions.

As bung casings always have in them weak spots which other machines render worthless by scoring or cutting because the pressure cannot be regulated it has been the usual practice to cleanse these by the slow process of hand cleaning. By this invention by slightly decreasing the upward pressure of table 0, on the weak spot in casing as it passes between brush A and table 0, this difficulty is wholly obviated.

What we claim as ourinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination in a casing cleaning machine of a hinged shield, a rotary brush, an inclined table hinged near its lower end, two springs rigidly attached to the under face of the table, set screws bearing upward against the under faces of springs, and a pedal and pedal-rod for depressing the table at will, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

BERNARD KLEKER. JUDSON COGER. Witnesses:

0. MORTON AYRns, EMMA HEGKEL. 

